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Petrov is just the latest in a line of snipers the OIlers have drafted, including Kirill Maksimov, Raphael Lavoie and Carter Savoie. The hope is that one of them will hit it big and earn a spot in Edmonton’s Top 6.
Elite Prospects says of young Petrov: “He has the mechanics of a wrist shot down: distance between feet, downward pressure with forward force through the shot, top hand out, and keeping his chest up. Petrov can move the puck under stick, saucer it above stick, and deceive with look-offs.”
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Hard-Working Carrick Makes the Most of His Opportunity in Anaheim
The popular longtime minor-leaguer lit the lamp Sunday in his first game up with the Ducks this season and hopes for more to come by Adam Brady @AdamJBrady / AnaheimDucks.com
There were no fans in the stands when Sam Carrick scored his first goal of the season Sunday night at Honda Center, but the cheers were plenty loud coming from several locales across North America.
They came from just up the road in Ontario, where Carrick s former teammates with the San Diego Gulls (which includes his brother Trevor) erupted on the bus heading back home from their game in Ontario. They came from 2,000 miles away in a different Ontario, the province in central Canada where family and friends were watching, going berserk and flooding him with text messages
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